Before Sunrise (1995)
- I watched this movie for the second time just because I was traveling in Vienna, and again realized how it’s filled with beautiful, engaging dialogue. So I decided to gather some quotes I really liked and post it here on my tumblr. :)
“You are both stars, don’t forget it. When the stars exploded billions of years ago, they formed everything that is this world. Everything we know is stardust. So, don’t forget, you are stardust.”
- the palm reader
“I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.”
- Celine
“OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there’s, like, two million people on the planet. Now there’s between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? ‘Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth’s time. You know, so at best we’re like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking…I mean, is that why we’re so scattered? You know, is that why we’re all so specialized?”
- Jesse
“If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed, but…who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.”
- Celine
“I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it was like not really being dead. People can invent the best and the worst for you.”
- Celine
“You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life. Only if you find peace within yourself will you find true connection with others.”
- the palm reader
“I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between.”
- Celine
“There’s all these people talking about how great technology is and how it saves all this time but what good is saved time if nobody uses it?”
- Jesse
“Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.”
- Jesse
“Daydream, delusion, limousine, eyelash
Oh baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet-cakes and milkshakes
I’m a delusion angel, I’m a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
Don’t want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we’re going
Lodged in life, Like branches in a river
Flowing downstream, Caught in the current
I’ll carry you, You’ll carry me
That’s how it could be
Don’t you know me?
Don’t you know me by now?”
- Street poet
“Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
- Celine
